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This might seem like a trick question, especially in an era when online streaming accounts for two-thirds of the market for recorded music.

Even so, the demand for box sets — which generally cater to affluent devotees more than casual listeners — has grown since the release of the first-ever such set, Bob Dylan’s best-selling “Biograph,” in 1985. So much so, in fact, that the manufacturing is increasingly done abroad, where production quality tends to be higher for box sets that are increasingly lavish in design, content and audio quality.

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